Are we about to solve the greatest mystery of the neutrino?Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000 We have long had a seemingly simple question about neutrinos: how much do they weigh? Now, a gigantic experiment in China is poised to find out – and the answer could transform particle physics forever | |
It’s about to get a lot harder to keep countries honest about climate changeMon, 19 Oct 2026 16:20:12 +0000 A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts | |
Bottlenose whales may look after each other when they’re sickMon, 19 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Northern bottlenose whales are more likely to stick together when individuals are poorly or emaciated | |
Discovery of T. rex’s cousin upends our understanding of tyrannosaur evolutionMon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding of how they evolved | |
Error-correction record pushes quantum computers closer to usefulnessMon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just broke the record for how reliable they can be | |
El Niño is dramatically increasing sea levels – how bad could it get?Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000 El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen, there could be coastal flooding from Alaska to Chile | |
Why the Drake equation is still important 65 years after its creationMon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime example of the importance of scientific guessing, says columnist Leah Crane | |
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art siteMon, 19 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers | |
Noise-cancelling headphones prevent vomiting after surgerySat, 17 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000 Nausea and vomiting are common after surgery, which may be partly related to the noises patients are exposed to, even under general anaesthetic. Wearing noise-cancelling headphones while on the operating table reduces the risk | |
Japan is launching a mission to Mars’s largest moon PhobosFri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, set to launch on 20 October, will bring back samples that should solve a moon mystery that has been vexing scientists for more than a century | |